In the last 4 years, SPCG Public Company Limited and Kyocera Corporation have developed 35 solar farms in Thailand, totaling approximately 257 megawatts capacity.
SPCG constructed the facilities and Kyocera supplied the solar panels – around 1.1 million modules.
Combined, the solar farms have an annual output of approximately 345,000,000kWh; which enough to meet the power needs of 287,500 average Thai households. The electricity is supplied to the Provincial Electricity Authority of Thailand (PEA).
The last of the projects was connected to the mains grid last month. A listing of all the solar farms along with details can be viewed here.
“Kyocera is honored to have taken part in this project, which we believe is an important milestone for the development of solar energy in Thailand,” said Mr. Nobuo Kitamura, Senior Executive Officer and General Manager of the Corporate Solar Energy Group at Kyocera Corporation.
Thailand has set a goal of generating a quarter of its power from renewable sources by 2021.
Kyocera has been developing solar power solutions for over 35 years and a Kyocera solar panel based system installed in 1992 has lost very little of its efficiency since the day it was installed.
Kyocera Solar is part of the massive Kyocera Group, which consists of 229 companies and employs over 70,000 people. Fiscal year 2013 net sales for the Group were $13.6 Billion.
In other recent news from Kyocera, the company has filed a complaint in Tokyo District Court against Hanwha Q CELLS Japan Co., Ltd.; for what it says is infringement of a Kyocera patent for a “three-bus-bar electrode structure” that increases conversion efficiency in solar modules.
However, Hanwha Q Cells says “the technology subject to this lawsuit has been publicly known through research papers since the 1990s, prior to Kyocera’s patent application. Hanwha Q CELLS Japan thereby believes that this case is a one-sided action taken by Kyocera.”
